Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Sanitation is a term for the hygienic disposal or recycling of waste materialss, particularly human excrement. Sanitation is an important public health measure which is essential for the prevention of disease. This is a pathetic stub article -- much more needs to be written here Topics to cover: Toilets and the invention of the water closet sewers and sewage treatment cesspits the germ theory of disease (and its predecessor, the miasma theory of disease) Dr. John Snow and the prevention of cholera in Soho See also: Wiktionary definition of sanitation This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.